Combination-tool.



No. 832 8.14. PATENTED 001?. 9, 1906. 0. E. ROTH.

COMBINATION TOOL. APPIJOATION FILED KAY 23. 1604.

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CHARLES E. ROTH, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINAT'ION-TQOL- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

ioplicationfilecl May 23,1904. Serial No. 209.257.

2'0 all whom, it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. ROTH, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools, ofwhich the following is a specification,

My invention relates to combination-tools and the object of the same isto provide a tool having two members which may be operated together andwhich may be readily disconnected to permit the use of either memberseparately.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a toolmade in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. Fig. 3is a detail view illustrating the construction of the pivotal connectionof the two members of the tool.

The numeral 1 designates one member of the tool, which has formedthereon a hammer-head 2, a pincer-j aw 3, a chisel 4, an im pact-lug 5to receive the blows of a mallet or hammer when the chisel is used,positioned at the base of the hammer-j aw and extending vertically in aline with the tool on the lower end of the handle a corrugatedpipe-wrench jaw 6, the wire-cutter jaws 7, and the handle A. The othermember 1 has formed integral therewith a hatchet 8, a pincer-j aw 3, ascrew-driver 9, the wrench-jaw 6 and the handle B.

The members 1 and 1 are pivotally connected together by a joint, whichwill permit the two members to be disconnected Whenever the character ofthe work to be performed by the tool may be facilitated by a simplehandle. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3 the member 1 is provided at thepivotal point 10 with a spline 11, which extends between the jaws 6 6,while at the opposite or lower face of the pivot a spline 12 is formed,positioned substantially diametrically to the spline or projection 11.These two splines 11 12 are of such length that when the handles A B areswung away from each other to the full extent the two members may beseparated; but when the two handles are brought together the splines 1112 slide in grooves 11 12, formed in line therewith in the oint portionof the member 1*. It will thus be seen that the two members of the toolare operative together unless they are separated to the full extent andthat when thus extended they may be separated for independent use. Whenthe member 1 is to be used as a chisel, the impact-point 5 may be struckby a mallet, and the hammer is also available for any purpose desired.The member 1 may be used as a hatchet or as a screw-driver.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to secure by LettersPatent and claim is' A compound tool of the character described havinghandle members detachably and pivotally connected together, and one ofsaid handle members formed with a chisel at its free end, and at theother end formed with an impact-lug 5, positioned at the base of thehammer-j aw and extending Vertically in a line with the tool on thelower end of the handle to receive blows when the chisel is used.

CHARLES E. ROTH. Witnesses:

JOSEPH F. GEIsLER, Gno. H. YOUNG.

